Games like The Deal
Below are 22 hand-picked alternatives to The Deal for fans of strategy, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in The Deal also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, more from Orfeas Game Studio. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
Get personalized picks →About The Deal: The Deal unravels the story of Cyrus, Myrella, Jonathan and Donna, while they traverse through the colorful continent of Carca, in a 10+ hours enthralling adventure!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Deal at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Deal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Deal.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Deal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Deal.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Deal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Deal.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Deal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Deal.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Deal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Deal.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Deal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Deal.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Deal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Deal.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Deal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Deal.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Deal.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Deal.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Deal.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Deal.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Deal.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Trick & Treat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Deal.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Sprout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Deal.
Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Deal.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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More from Orfeas Game Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Orfeas Game Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
A Spooky Teaparty
WHY THIS
Another title from Orfeas Game Studio, the studio behind The Deal. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Deal.
Take the role of Rover, Summer, Britton and Marina in this fun, exploration-based Halloween adventure that takes place just after the events of Aplestia! Find treats, solve puzzles, battle with spooky monsters, enter secret rooms and meet with undead, funny characters! Welcome to Duruduru Castle!
Aplestia
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and a lighthearted mood with The Deal.
Another title from Orfeas Game Studio, the studio behind The Deal. Shares Indie and RPG with The Deal.
Aplestia is a light-hearted, unepic, fun, cynical and adventurous rpg with turn-based combat! Fight monsters, bosses, get your loot and find secret rooms and epic equipment.
The Prophecy Lies!
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and a cozy mood with The Deal.
Another title from Orfeas Game Studio, the studio behind The Deal. Shares Indie and RPG with The Deal.
Take the role of Darius, a Tiborean, who has to work with the most despicable creatures of all… the humans! Go to Panom’Arah, a part of the Human World and complete the difficult mission of finding and retrieving the Anomaly, a rare and dangerous form of magic.
The Winter's Deal - Frosty Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Orfeas Game Studio, the studio behind The Deal. Shares RPG and Casual with The Deal.
Dive into a winter, snowy and freezing adventure, fight against demonic powers, explore, pick up gifts with items, find rare items, complete quests and solve the mystery behind these new, bizarre monsters that wreck havoc on Snowbelle Island!
Shattered Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Deal.
Another title from Orfeas Game Studio, the studio behind The Deal. Shares RPG with The Deal.
Follow Prometheus, his trusty wardog pet Snap, his new pirate friend Calenda and the honorable spirit knight Karul in a grand and full of exploration adventure! Defeat monsters, find secret rooms, complete quests, earn items and loot, fight with fierce bosses and learn about the mythos of Astus!
Aplestia: Retold
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Deal.
Another title from Orfeas Game Studio, the studio behind The Deal. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Deal.
Follow the steps of Britton, Summer, Rover and Marina, a team of four rookie adventurers that went on their first ever S Class Quest! Aplestia:Retold is the remade version of the 2017 game and offers double the content, more side quests, stages and much much more!
Frequently asked about The Deal
- How much does The Deal cost?
- The Deal is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Who developed The Deal?
- The Deal was developed by Orfeas Game Studio and published by Aldorlea Games.
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